Amy Aquino, born March 20, 1957, is a 57-year-old American television, film, and stage actress. She is a graduate of both Harvard and Yale Universities, and has appeared in television series such as Brooklyn Bridge, ER and Being Human. She was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role in Picket Fences. She is currently co-secretary-treasurer of the Screen Actors Guild.

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Personal Life

Aquino was born in Teaneck, New Jersey, and is the daughter of Adele Frances (Mesiti) and Salvatore Aquino. She first acted in junior high school productions. She went onto Harvard University, studying pre-medical with biology as a major. In her final year, she realized that she was spending more time acting than studying and so left to travel to New York to take acting classes whilst working as at a law firm. She stayed there for three years without landing any acting jobs, before travelling to Minneapolis on a recommendation where she gained her first roles. She enrolled at Yale University's Drama School in 1986 after two years of rejections.

Aquino met Drew McCoy after being to California. They were married in 1995 at Saint Malachy's Roman Catholic Church in Manhattan. Together they purchased the Villa Royale, an Inn in Palm Springs, California, which they renovated over a two year period. She joined the Screen Actors Guild in 1987, and was named the co-secretary-treasurer on September 24, 2009. She was elected for a second term in 2011 without opposition. She has also previously served two terms as first vice-president.

Career

After three years at Yale, she spent the following five years based in New York. Whilst there she appeared with Kevin Spacey at Playwrights Horizons and joined the Circle Repertory Company. She appeared in Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles, which won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1989. During the same year she appears in both Moonstruck and had a brief scene in Working Girl where she played Melanie Griffith's secretary at the end of the film, her first film roles. In 1991, she gained a main cast role in the pilot for the CBS series Brooklyn Bridge. It was picked up and after being renewed for a second series, Aquino moved to California to be closer to where it was being filmed. After moving, she has primarily been in television roles, including ER, and Everyone Loves Raymond. She was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for playing the part of Dr Joanna "Joey" Diamond in Picket Fences. She appeared in another play of Wasserstein's, Third, in the off-Broadway production at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in 2005. Aquino also appeared off-Broadway at the 59E59 Theaters in Secrets of the Trade by Jonathan Tolins.

She was cast as the witch Donna in the second series of Being Human. In 2013, Aquino was cast in the ABC Television pilot Divorce: A Love Story. However, the role was recast when the producers decided that she looked too young to play Jason Jones' mother. The actor was sixteen years younger than her.

Filmography

Year

Title

Role

Notes

1987

Moonstruck

Bonnie

Easy Street

(Maid in Italy)

1988

Working Girl

Alice Baxter

1989

One of the Boys

Bernice DeSalvo

(6 episodes)

1990

Law & Order

Erica Stohlmeyer

(Prisoner of Love)

Descending Angel

Catherine

TV Movie

1991

False Arrest

Cathy

TV Movie

Roseanne

Linda Wagner

(Dances with Darlene)

Davis Rules

Mrs. Chavez

(Habla Espanol?)

The Last to Go

Ginny

TV Movie

Brooklyn Bridge

Phyllis Berger Silver

1991 - 93 (32 episodes)

1992

Alan & Naomi

Ruth Silverman

Lifestories: Families in Crisis

Carol Di Paolo

(Blood Brothers: The Joey DiPaolo Story)

1993

Jack Reed: Badge of Honor

Sharon Hilliard

TV Movie

A Place to Be Loved

Debby Hunter

TV Movie

Murphy Brown

Julianna

(Murphy and the Amazing Leaping Man)

Sisters

Iris

(The Whole Truth)

1994

Madman of the People

Sasha Danziger

1994 - 95 (16 episodes)

Once in a Lifetime

Barbara

TV Movie

Betrayal of Trust

Jeannie Wilcox

TV Movie

ER

Dr. Janet Coburn

1995 - 09 (26 episodes)

Picket Fences

Dr. Joanna 'Joey' Diamond

1995 - 96 (12 episodes)

My Brother's Keeper

Terry

TV Movie

Boys on the Side

Anna

1996

The Larry Sanders Show

Rabbi Susan Klein

(My Name Is Asher Kingsley)

1997

Ally McBeal

Dr. Harper

(Boy to the World)

1998

Becker

Beverly Stone

(Pilot)

1999

Action

Connie Hunt

1999 - 00 (Mr. Dragon Goes to Washington and Dead Man Floating)

Judging Amy

Judge Greta Anastassio

1999 - 00 (3 episodes)

7th Heaven

Ms. Williams

(...And Expiation)

Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane

Mrs. Milch

(The Advice and Under Mom's Thumb)

2000

Felicity

Dr. Toni Pavone

2000 - 02 (10 episodes)

That's Life

Bernadette

(Saint Bernadette)

Freaks and Geeks

Mrs. Schweiber

(The Garage Door and Noshing and Moshing)

Time of Your Life

Mrs. Liebowitz

(The Time They Got E-Rotic)

NYPD Blue

Annabelle Cito

(Lucky Luciano)

The West Wing

Becky Reeseman

(The White House Pro-Am)

2001

Crossing Jordan

Detective Lois Carver

2001 - 04 (8 episodes)

Citizen Baines

Marina Isaacs

(Lost and Found)

Gideon's Crossing

Dr. Fieldstone

(Orphans)

2002

Everybody Loves Raymond

Peggy

2002 - 05 (4 episodes)

Alias

Virginia Kerr

(The Indicator)

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Susan Braudy

(The Terrorist Attack and The Corpse-Sniffing Dog)

White Oleander

Miss Martinez

Undisputed

Darlene Early

2003

The Practice

Judge Louise Moreno

(Concealing Evidence)

The Singing Detective

Nurse Nozhki

National Security

Councilwoman

2004

In Good Company

Alicia

Strong Medicine

Willa James

(Code)

Woman Thou Art Loosed

Miss Rodgers

2005

Monk

Rhonda/Mrs. Bowen

2005/2009 (Mr. Monk and the Red Herring and Mr. Monk Goes to Group Therapy)